Quote

Nothing is our except time.

Seneca the Elder

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Seneca the Elder
Historian
Philosopher
Poet
Rhetorician
Writer
Córdoba
Andalusia
Annaeus Seneca maior
Time
Except
Nothing

More quotes by Seneca the Elder

Image
It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.
Seneca the Elder
Image
The great soul surrenders itself to fate.
Seneca the Elder
Image
If you want to be loved, love.
Seneca the Elder
Image
For the great benefits of our being- our life, health, and reason-we look upon ourselves.
Seneca the Elder
Image
It is not death we fear, but the thought of it.
Seneca the Elder
Image
A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.
Seneca the Elder
Image
Unhappy is the man, though he rule the world, who doesn't consider himself supremely blessed.
Seneca the Elder
Image
You can end love more easily than you can moderate it.
Seneca the Elder
Image
Let us be brave in the face of adversity.
Seneca the Elder
Image
The sun also shines on the wicked.
Seneca the Elder
Image
The mind is slow to unlearn what it learnt early.
Seneca the Elder
Image
Unhappy is the man, though he rule the world, who doesn't consider himself supremely blessed. In order to consider himself supremely blessed he must deeply understand that things could be much worse but aren't! To not do that is to always be less happy than he could be.
Seneca the Elder
Image
The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.
Seneca the Elder
Image
No evil is without its compensation ... it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss, that troubles us.
Seneca the Elder
Image
Know this, that he that is a friend to himself, is a friend to all men.
Seneca the Elder
Image
We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres or a little money and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.
Seneca the Elder
Image
It is not manly to turn one's back on fortune.
Seneca the Elder
Image
No man will swim ashore and take his baggage with him.
Seneca the Elder
Image
Malice drinks one-half of its own poison.
Seneca the Elder
Image
I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
Seneca the Elder